Saturday Morning Live

Not many Americans were both awake and tuned in to CNN, the all-news
cable-TV network, early Saturday morning.

But those who were saw something that had never appeared on U.S. screens
before: a Soviet leader conducting a press conference in Moscow,
live. It was not exactly American-stylethe questions were mostly
written, not shouted by reportersbut it was close enough to arouse
feelings of déjà vu. The Kremlin apparently wanted
to make the maximum
publicity splash for its official reply to President Reagan's
Euromissile proposals. So the Soviet foreign ministry began notifying
reporters...